I don't want to be a saint

Chapter 38 In the books of scholars, even this is taught?

And when they dug the land, Guo Yi had already selected the site for the brick kiln.

Just at the foot of Luming Mountain, there is a natural cave, which is used by the villagers to rest their feet.

One is easy to repair, you only need to dig a few meters deep, then perform simple repairs, and open a few vents and fuel ports above.

Second, it is at the foot of Luming Mountain, so it is very convenient to transport carbon.

There is also a pond not far away, and it is very convenient to get water.

Yang Liwen took the lead in setting up the village collective engineering team, and the first job he received was to build this brick kiln.

A group of people were busy up and down, and it took five or six days to finally complete it.

And just in the past few days, the old thirteen Yang Licheng also made some adobe molds with wooden boards, and brought them to him: "Brother Yi, can you see if these molds can be made?"

These adobe molds are all made according to the dimensions given by Guo Yi.

It is exactly the same size as the red bricks of later generations, not too big or too small, just enough to be grasped with one hand.

Guo Yi took a mold, looked it over and over, nodded and said: "Well, yes, that's how it is."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head and shouted into the distance: "Uncle Ba, bring people and mud now, and try whether this mold works well. After the bricks are made, we will start the kiln."

Yang Laoba, whose name is Yang Lizhi, has a character of "Xingba".

He has a burly figure of about 1.8 meters, with muscles all over his body, and is extremely strong, which is comparable to today's bodybuilders.

He used to work as a porter on the wharf, but this year Yanglin Village opened a kiln to burn bricks, so he was asked to stay and manage the brick kiln.

At this time, he was leading someone to help Yang Liwen repair the cave. Hearing Guo Yi's shout, he strode over and asked in a rough voice: "Brother Yi, do you use this thing to make bricks?"

"Well," Guo Yi didn't talk nonsense, stretched out his hand and rolled up his sleeve, and said in response, "Go, I'll make a demonstration first."

His hands-on ability is not weak at all.

Gein, in his previous life, he dropped out of school and went out to work without graduating from junior high school, but without a diploma, he couldn't find a good job, so he could only move bricks and mud on construction sites.

Therefore, he can be regarded as a mason with three knives.

After rolling up his sleeves, without a word of nonsense, he took the shovel and started digging.

To make adobe, you need to use the deep pure soil two feet below the surface as the raw material, without sand and gravel, and with high viscosity.

The excavated soil has to be naturally air-dried for half a month to make its interior decompose naturally.

But now there is not so much time to wait, so I can only make do.

Then it is to add water and mud, while adding water, bring two cows, and keep stepping on it to soften the mud.

His muddy movements are a bit rusty, but they are still clean and neat.

But the other people who watched frowned. Isn't this Brother Yi a scholar who came back from the big city?

Why, pan the kang, sell coal, make candles, are you proficient in everything?
Now, he can even burn bricks and mud?

In the books of scholars, even this is taught?

After the two cows stepped on it non-stop, a large lump of mud was reconciled.Guo Yi took the mold, put the reconciled mud into it, and pressed it flat with force.

Then, use a thin hemp rope to scrape off the excess mud on it.

Finally, move the loose button on the mould, disassemble the mould, and the adobe inside has been formed.

The movements are swift, crisp and abnormal, without any sloppiness.

Moreover, it is very simple, you can see it at a glance.Without any technical content.

Old Ba Yang Lizhi was also a little dumbfounded, and couldn't help asking: "Brother Yi, when did you learn how to be a bricklayer?"

"Such a simple thing, do you still need to learn it?" Guo Yi said in a smug voice, and then continued: "Uncle Thirteen, this mold is well made, and we will make more. We have to hurry up and work together. As the kiln bricks fire, another batch of adobes is made and dried.”

"En." Yang Licheng nodded: "I'll go back and do it now."

Soon, the division of labor and cooperation began.

He went back to make molds, Yang Liwen and the others repaired the cave dwellings, while Guo Yi and Zhuzi followed Yang Lizhi and the others to make adobes.

These finished bricks can only be regarded as semi-finished products, and they need to be dried naturally in the shade before they can be fired in the cave.

Generally speaking, it takes ten days and half a month to dry the bricks.This process should not be rushed, otherwise, the fired bricks will easily crack.

Later, you can make more adobes and cycle them to dry.

But now, I can't wait any longer. Seeing that the weather is getting warmer every day, the chicken and rabbit breeding workshop must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

Because, spring is here, everything is recovering, and it is the season for animals to breed again...

Once the weather warms up, chickens and rabbits begin to reproduce rapidly and in large numbers.

As a result, the finished bricks were moved into the repaired cave dwellings after only drying for seven or eight days!
Then, after adding the carbon fuel, the hole was sealed.

It takes at least ten days to burn.If you use stone carbon, add more, it can be shortened to five or six days.

During this period of time, Guo Yi was still not idle, leading his men to start digging the foundation, preparing to build a chicken and rabbit breeding workshop.

Every other layer is sprinkled with quicklime.Used to isolate mice, germs and insects.

This point must not be settled.

Thousands of rabbits are all crowded in the same breeding room. Once one is infected, it is likely to be infected in groups.

One death, one litter.

A voice suddenly came from a distance: "Brother Yi, people from the palace are here!"

Guo Yi turned his head to look, and saw a half-grown man running over, shouting as he ran.

And behind him, a carriage followed unhurriedly.Coming closer, a fat middle-aged man opened the curtain and got out of the carriage.

It was Guanshi Zhu who came here.

Wearing a navy blue cross-neck robe, he looked very energetic. He stood beside the carriage with his hands behind his back and his chest up. He looked at the brick kiln that was emitting black smoke in the distance, and at the crowd laying the foundation.

Suddenly he asked, "What are you doing?"

Guo Yi raised his finger and pointed to the brick kiln: "A new brick kiln has been dug and built, and bricks and tiles are being fired, and a new house is being flipped over. It is planned to build a chicken and rabbit breeding workshop here to raise chickens and rabbits."

Manager Zhu was a little curious, turned around to look at him and asked, "Raising rabbits? How much is that worth?"

In the livestock market, an adult meat rabbit costs only four or five hundred Wen.It doesn't sound cheap, but an adult rabbit needs to be raised for more than half a year.

Guo Yi smiled brightly and spread his hands, "What if it's four or five thousand?"

"How much?" Manager Zhu was obviously taken aback, and asked incredulously, "Four to five thousand?"

"Well, in the twelfth lunar month of last year, more than 400 rabbits were exchanged for stone carbon, of which there were about 4000 female rabbits. Assuming that a rabbit gave birth to [-] young rabbits a year, the [-] female rabbits would be born in a year. Can give birth to more than [-] only.

And, I plan to buy some more.If you work hard, there will be more than 5000 by the end of the year. "

Good guy!
How could he still settle accounts like this!

Zhu Guanshi was a little dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. Looking at the handsome young man in front of him who kept surprising him, he asked with some doubts: "If I remember correctly, you seem to be a scholar? At this point in time, Jiangling Is the school all open?"

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